Cattle and Sheep Inventory Reports

Lorrie Boyer

Reporter

The US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has released an updated cattle inventory report. Roger Ott is director of the NASS Rocky Mountain Regional field office.

“At the US level, there was a total of 89 point 3 million cattle and calves in inventory on January 1 2023, which was down 3% from the previous year. Of that total, there was 28 point 9 million head of beef cow down 4% from a year ago, and 9.4 million milk cows which was up slightly from a year ago.

In addition, an updated sheep and goat inventory report is out.

“As of January 1, the US level for the goat inventory. There were 2.5 million all goats on hand, down 2%. Of that total, 2 million of those were meat and other goats, which was down 1% or 100,000 were milk goats, which was down 2% and 107,000, or Angora goats, which was down 3% from the prior year.”

Once again, that was Roger Ott. He is the Rocky Mountain Regional Field Office Director for the National Agricultural Statistics Service. He explains that the cattle inventory report is released each January and July with January having both state and national data and July only hav ing us level estimates. As for the sheep and goat inventory report, he says it is conducted once a year and is done at the beginning of each new year.